Re: [MacPerl] Developers To Polish New Perl

[Brian McNett <brianmc@telebyte.net>]

on 7/31/00 1:29 PM, Ronald J Kimball at rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu wrote:

>> The language is being rewritten "from the ground up" to bring it into the
>> Web-based world and let it work with other Internet technologies...
> 
> Well, it's about time!  You don't know how long I've wanted to use Perl in
> the web-based world and have it work with other Internet technologies.

Six years in journalism teaches one to spot when a reporter is filling in
the blanks.  Note where the quotation marks fall.  The reporter quotes "from
the ground up".  He wrote that down on his note pad during the interview,
and someone may actually hace said that.

"duct tape of the web", is similarly in quotes, so clearly the reporter
thought that was important, and someone might have actually said that.

Then there's the matter of everything else, which, it should be understood,
is the reporter filling in the blanks.  Is Larry Wall going to take on the
task of re-writing Perl all by himself? (Chucky-boy doesn't say, does he?).

As to "other Internet technologies", does Chucky-boy say *what* other
techhnologies?  Mabye Perl doesn't work with the latest versions of the
streaming string-cheeses protocal?  You just can't know this sort of thing.

--Brian

Still, having the complete rewrite will be nice... (they're talking about
Perl 6, correct?)


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